¶ Bridge
Index Entry
“To each of us environment means: everything that is not me. Environment is subdivisible into two parts, physical and metaphysical. The metaphysical environment consists of human thoughts, generalized principles, and customs. The Leonardo types seem to have avoided attempting to reform the metaphysical environment. They are documented only for their employment of the metaphysically generalized principles to reorganize the physical constituents of the scenery, apparently assuming intuitively that a more man-favoring rearrangement of the environment would be conducive to humanity’s spontaneous self-realization of its higher potentials. Human travelers coming to a river and finding a bridge across it spontaneously use the bridge instead of hazarding themselves in the torrents.”
